Live-stock releaser



(No Model.)

N. R. SHEETS. LIVE STOCK RBLBASEB..

No. 447,979. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

NIAL R. SHEETS, OF DIGHTON, KANSAS.

LIVE-STOCK RELEASER..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,979, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed September 29, 1890. Serial No. 366,511. (No model.)

To all whom, it 71mg/ concern:

Be it known that LNIAL R. SHEETS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dighton, in the county of Lane and State of (Kansas, have invented a new and useful Stock-Releaser, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in devices for releasing animals from stalls.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device which will be strong, durable, and easily operated and capable of simultaneously releasing the animals of a barn or stable from their stalls.

The invent-ion consists of the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved stock-releasing device applied in operative position to a manger. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. e is a detail perspective view of the slide. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2,but showing the slide operated.

Referring 'to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the side of a manger arranged at the head of a stall and having secured to it a bracket-casting 2, having its upper and lower ends 3 perforated to receive bolts 4t for securing it to the manger, and provided intermediate of its ends with a recess 5, terminating at the top and bottom in grooves 6, which forni ways for ianges 7, arranged at the sides of a slide 8. The slide 8 is arranged in the recess 5 of the bracket 2, and is actuated by a sliding bar 9, having one end extending through the side 10 of a barn and pivoted in a recess 11 of an operating-lever 12, which is adapted to reciprocate the sliding bar 9 to release a ring 13 from a pin 14, extending inward over the recess 5 from a flange 15, formed integral with the bracket 2, and arranged at one end of the recess 5,and being a continuation'of the end wall 1G of said recess. In the lower face of the slide is formed a longitudinal recess 17, which receives the sliding bar 9, and the said slide is provided with three similar outwardly-extending flanges 1S, 19,

and 20, arranged at intervals and located at the ends of the slide and at a point intermediate of the ends. The iianges 19 and 20 are provided with oppositely-disposed transverse openings 2l and 22, which form sockets for the pin 14E, which secures the ring 13 in the space between the flanges 19 and 20, and the latter flange serves to carry the ring clear of the end of the pin when the slide is moved to release an animal, and the flange 19 retains the ring upo'n the pin when the device is locked, and both of the flanges serve to support the pin and strengthen the device. The slide 8 is secured to the bar 9 by a pivoted key 23, provided with a projection 24 to engage a notch 25 of the sliding bar, and having an integral pintle 2o, which is -journaled in oppositely-disposed recesses vlocated at one end of the space between the flanges 18 and 19. The key is arranged in the space between the flanges 1S and 19, and is adapted to be swung outward on its pivot 2G to lift the projection 24 out of engagement with the notch 25 of the sliding bar to enable the slide'to be moved laterally independent ot` the sliding bar 9 to be taken out of the recess 5 of the bracket.

A bracket and slide is designed to be provided for each stall of a barn or stable, and

to be connected, as above described, with the sliding bar 9, and it will be seen that the releasing device is simple and inexpensive and is strong and durable, and any number of them may be operated to simultaneously release the stock. The sliding bar 9 is arranged in the recess of the bracket and passes across the latter, moving through a rectangular opening 29 in the end wall 16 .of the recess7 and the said bar fits snugly in the longitudinal recess of the slide, which is rectangular and conforms to the configuration of the bar.

1. The combination of the bracket having the longitudinal dovetailed recess and provided with a pin let, arranged opposite the recess, the slide arranged in the recess and provided with parallel iianges having` openings to receive the pin 14, and means for locking the slide in the bracket, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the recessed bracket 2, provided with the pin 14, the slide arranged IOO in the recess and provided with flanges having openings to receive the said pin, the sliding bar provided with a notch 25, and the key pivotally mounted in the slide and arranged to engage the notch of the sliding bar, substantially as described.

The combination of the bracket having the recess 5 and provided with the flange 15, arranged at one end of the recess, the pin 14, extending` laterally from the flange l5 and arranged opposite the recess, the sliding' bar 9, arranged in the recess ot the bracketI and provided with a notch 25, the slide fitting in the recess of the bracket and provided in its lower face with a longitudinal recess to reeeive the sliding bar and provided with the fianges 1S, 19, and 20, arranged at intervals and having spaces between them, and the key hinged to the slide and arranged between the Hanges 18 and l0 and provided with a projection to engage the notch of the sliding bar, substantially as deseribed.

In' testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto atxed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NIAL R. SHEE'IS.

Witnesses:

I. J. MURPHY, J. D. JONES. 

